stockade / stɒˈkeɪd /

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stockade2 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
  2. an enclosure or pen made with posts and stakes.
  3. U.S. Military. a prison for military personnel.
v. 有主动词 verb

stock·ad·ed, stock·ad·ing.

  1. to protect, fortify, or encompass with a stockade.

stockade 近义词

n. 名词 noun

enclosure; jail

更多stockade例句

  1. A Look at Nashville’s History Nashville was first established as a settlement along the banks of the Cumberland river in 1779, when a band of pioneers led by Englishman James Robertson first cleared the land and built a stockade.
  2. It was Korea, and I served three years—half of it in the stockade.
  3. I lay against a corner of the stockade seat, listening to the wind whispering and to the ceaseless drip-drip of the trees.
  4. I returned alone to the stockade, and for a long time after that kept the fire blazing, and sat up smoking and thinking.
  5. "We should put a stockade of logs across the neck of land on that side," answered Champlain.
  6. A stockade half bars the river of Plouernel, and serves as a shelter for the barges of the seigneur.
  7. We had no form of shelter, and there was no stockade around the camp, only a guard and a dead-line.